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The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn - whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world.
Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and ProvenÇal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Ligurian Geopoetics
I - 'Twixt Halcyon and Marathon: Azure Spell and Difficult Beauty
Riviera Existence
On the Ligurian Edge
Luring Onomastics
II - Ligurian Lures: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried Benn
Copious Dawns, High Noon, Blessed Isles: Nietzsche's Ligurianity
Guilt Trips on Royal Roads: Freud's Ligurian Affinities
Blind Spots, Alibis, Sceneries: Benn's Ligurian Complexes
Postface: Liguria Rediviva
Notes
Bibliography
Index
